Since the publication of the LEGS Handbook in 2009, the LEGS Project has developed training materials and rolled out a series of Training of Trainers courses in six developing regions.
Course facilitators span palliative care specialists, educators who have attended 'train-the-trainer' courses in palliative care, and nurses with hospice experience.
In 2005 organizers of the BWF/HHMI program put on a "train the trainers" course in an effort to encourage similar programs at institutions across the country.
Trainees reported hearing about the Train the Trainers course in many different ways.
In 2013, H3ABioNet ran a 3-week train-the-trainer course in Kenya, training young staff members in a number of bioinformatics topics [Python programming, biostatistics, next-generation sequencing (NGS) and genome-wide associations study (GWAS) analyses].
Through a training-of-trainers course in November 14 15, 2010, and department-level training conducted in French and Creole over the following 3 weeks, 521 persons were trained and equipped to further train staff at the institutions where they worked.
Recent alumni, (those participants who attended the Train the Trainers course in the two years preceding the data collection (2004-2007) were more likely to return the TTT survey than earlier (2004 or earlier) alumni (44% vs. 21%, respectively; p < 0.001).
A Train-the-Trainers course in Health and Human Rights was established in 1998 to equip faculty members from health sciences institutions nationwide with the necessary skills, attitudes and knowledge to teach human rights to their students.
Most NSFs developed and organized special trainer courses to grow their trainer database.
Academic training such as "train the trainer" courses (13 of 32 in 2012), master courses in palliative care (5 of 32 in 2012) or master courses in medical education MME (4 of 32 in 2012) had rarely been undertaken by the responsible faculty members.
Periodically participating in 'train the trainer' courses is another way to keep updated and to gain exposure to state-of-the-art training techniques.
